If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
B.K.S. IYENGARWhen you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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